{"id":42071,"date":"2025-07-06T00:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/42071\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T00:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:41:08","slug":"mets-slug-their-way-past-sloppy-yankees-in-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/42071\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets slug their way past sloppy Yankees in win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first two games of the Queens edition of the Subway Series, the Mets\u2019 Stadium Ops crew has acted as if it wants to ensure the invading Yankees fans have a good time (and, of course, return).<\/p>\n<p>There have been singalongs to Francisco Lindor\u2019s \u201cMy Girl\u201d; entreaties for peace between the fan bases between innings while \u201cWhy Can\u2019t We Be Friends\u201d plays; extended, elongated sketches involving the \u201cBronx Giraffe,\u201d who is on the lam, or something; a bit involving a \u201cYankees fan\u201d deciding the less-traditional environment at Citi Field is more fun than Yankee Stadium and thus trading his allegiances.<\/p>\n<p>As Mets marketing executives tried to outdo their counterparts, the on-field product has reflected that the home team is doing just about everything better.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees are playing sloppy baseball, and the Mets already have slugged their way to a Subway Series victory before Sunday\u2019s finale. The Mets thoroughly outplayed the Yankees again in a 12-6 dusting in front of 41,401 on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in which the sun appropriately shined longer on the Mets\u2019 dugout.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Alonso (20) blasts a three-run home run during the seventh inning when the New York Mets beat the New York Yankees on Saturday, July 5, 2025  Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The Mets (52-38) seem to have brushed off their June swoon and have won four straight behind just enough pitching and an offensive awakening. Brandon Nimmo smacked his second grand slam in four days to get the party going, and Pete Alonso added two more homers \u2014 up to 246 for his career, six shy of Darryl Strawberry for the franchise record \u2014 to gain more than enough separation.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees (48-41) have dropped six straight in what sure feels like a rock bottom. This freefall often has seen them hurt themselves, which in one case, involving Aaron Judge and Anthony Volpe on Saturday, became literal.<\/p>\n<p>An all-around miserable day for the Yankees included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Aaron Boone signaling Clarke Schmidt \u201clikely\u201d will need Tommy John surgery;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/05\/sports\/yankees-aaron-judge-bloodied-after-getting-hit-by-anthony-volpe-throw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judge getting bloodied<\/a> while running in from right field between innings, a throw from Volpe catching No. 99 by surprise. He wore a bandage near his eye afterward;<\/li>\n<li>Countless misplays and two officially scored errors that made the Mets\u2019 path to victory \u2014 in a game in which they stitched together nine competent innings from Frankie Montas (four runs in 5 \u2154 innings), Richard Lovelady, Chris Devenski, Ryne Stanek and Edwin D\u00edaz, Carlos Mendoza asking for a third game in four days from the latter two \u2014 surprisingly smooth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After shots from Jazz Chisholm Jr., Austin Wells and Anthony Volpe, the Yankees have smacked seven homers in two games and lost both because their pitching and defense have been regrettable.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Nimmo crushed a grand slam off Carlos Rodon. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The statements from the two clubs \u2014 one that kept making mistakes and another that looked to take advantage \u2014 arrived immediately.<\/p>\n<p>In the bottom of the first, Starling Marte doubled on what should have been a single, Jasson Dom\u00ednguez taking a poor route at the gapper. After a Francisco Lindor walk, Juan Soto stunningly laid down the third sacrifice bunt of his career, which prompted Carlos Rod\u00f3n to pitch around Pete Alonso \u2014 who took first base on ball four as Wells tried a snap throw to third, a base that Chisholm was not near.<\/p>\n<p>With the bases loaded, Rod\u00f3n, too, made a mistake in hanging a 1-2 slider in the middle of the plate, Nimmo launching a shot to right for his third grand slam of the season.<\/p>\n<p>New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor had a big Saturday against the Yankees. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Jazz Chisholm homered for the Yankees in the loss. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Any drama the rest of the way would be drained by Yankees miscues. In the second, Chisholm airmailed a throw to first base that put Tyrone Taylor on second base before Marte rocketed an RBI single off the left-field wall, another instance in which Dom\u00ednguez got a poor jump.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees had cut the deficit to 7-5 by the bottom of the seventh, when Ronny Mauricio doubled before Francisco Lindor singled into center. Trent Grisham might have had a play at the plate, but the center fielder booted the ball so Mauricio scored easily and Lindor reached second.<\/p>\n<p>With little help behind him, new Yankees pitcher Jayvien Sandridge then could not help himself: After a walk to Soto, Sandridge served up a down-the-middle fastball to Alonso, who demolished it for a three-run shot on an afternoon the first baseman drove in five.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Rodon took the loss on Saturday against the Mets. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Frankie Montas got the start for the Mets on Saturday. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>The scoring on a perfect and imperfect day for the Mets and Yankees, respectively, ended aptly: With Soto drilling a long, RBI single off the right-field wall in the eighth, one more indignity for his former team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first two games of the Queens edition of the Subway Series, the Mets\u2019 Stadium Ops crew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10632,3689,1266,1305,2228,3687,62,30700,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-42071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-carlos-rodon","9":"tag-francisco-lindor","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-mets","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-pete-alonso","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-subway-series","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}